N2.9 BILLION LOAN FOR CARS A BRUTAL ATTACK ON THE BAYELSA ECONOMY

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In Bayelsa State, so many things have

Senator Douye Diri
Governor of Bayelsa State

happened in the past: especially what our leaders, Governors of

Bayelsa State have been doing one after the other in connivance with successive Houses of Assembly to collect loans from banks to enrich themselves with impunity to the detriment of the land and people of the State.
Taking loans by any Government is not unconstitutional, but such loans were expected to be sourced for and only approved by parliaments after seriously debated the prose and cons if such loans were to service the needs of the people of the State, and not at all, for self enrichment of the Governor and his Deputy or cronies alone.
The whooping amount of N2.9bn bank loan said to have been collected by the less than twenty days old  administration of Senator Douye Diri and Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo as Governor and Deputy Governor respectively just to buy what they called:

Rt. Hon. Abraham Ingobere
Speaker Bayelsa House of Assembly

"operational vehicles for the Governor and Deputy Governor for themselves...." is unimaginable, unpatriotic and of course unbelievable.
It is also unpalatable because Bayelsa State at this point and time is profusely bleeding financially, and it was least expected that a succeeding government which inherited a paltry sum of N65,000.00 from the Seriake Dickson  administration as widely reported would take a dive of such fabulous amount of money to service their personal needs to say the least, is highly unpatriotic.
The very first allocation that came from the federation accounts into the treasury of the State, under the Douye Diri administration, diverted or priotised to buying personal cars is like deliberately stifling or brutalizing the already sick ecnomy of the fledgling state to death.
The worry of the ordinary Bayelsan is the fact that the State House of Assembly had never at anytime stepped down such bank loan collection offers from the Executive Arm to either inform the grassroots or consult their constituencies before giving approvals. It is sad to note that the Assembly members who ordinarily entered the hallowed chambers of the Assembly as representatives of their Constituencies now behave contrarily to that truth, taking unilateral decisions as if they no longer have Constituencies.
The few days old House of Assembly with Rt. Hon. Abraham Ingobere as Speaker was not different from his predecessors behaviors to collect loans from banks.

The hasty approval of the N2.9bn bank loan sourced by Governor  Douy Diri went through a smooth sail, following a motion raised by Hon. Monday Boluo Obolo which  was supported and approved by all the members of the House without a jot of debate.
This is too dangerous for a fledgling State like Bayelsa which though very rich in mineral resources, in the oil and gas dominated national economy is top in the list of poorest and most underdeveloped states in the Federation of Nigeria.
Tongues are wagging, questions are being asked, what happened to the official cars bought by the immediate past Seriake Dickson Government in the same manner with loans collected from banks approved by the State Assembly in the days of Kombowei Benson as Speaker, where are all those cars, were they taken away for private use by the immediate past government?

Or the cars were left behind, but looted  thereafter by some unidentified persons or some unmentionables? Or is it the tradition of Bayelsa State, that any new Government that comes to power must take a jaw breaking billions of Naira loans from banks with huge interests to buy official vehicles?

Otonye Evans Tubonah
The Golden Pen Publisher

And does it mean
that anytime Douye Diri and Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo  shall leave Government House as Governor and Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State respectively, they will go with these billions of naira cars for a successor Government to take loans through the Assembly to buy their choice billion naira cars?
If so, is that the way to Prosperity Bayelsans should expect from the Douye Diri administration?